Jerome Boateng's New Transfer and His Past Relationship Tragedy

The Salernitana has recently formalized its new purchase, former Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng. Scrolling through the comments under the social post announcing it, it's impossible not to notice many comments showing a picture of a girl with the caption 'Rest in Peace Kasia Lenhardt'.

Kasia, in fact, was Boateng's ex-girlfriend, found dead in her home on February 9, 2021. The footballer and the model had a relationship of just over a year, which ended a week before the tragic event.

The end of the relationship

Their story was quite tormented, so much so that it ended with a fight on social media. The German defender accused Lenhardt of blackmailing him: 'During our relationship Kasia often threatened to destroy me. She threatened to ruin my career and even to make me lose my children by accusing me of domestic violence'. The model responded to these statements by saying that the breakup actually came due to 'lies and infidelity'.

The death

On February 9, 2021, a week after breaking up with Boateng, Kasia Lenhardt was found lifeless in her home in Berlin. A few hours before dying, the model had posted on Instagram about a 'new chapter' in her life. From the first moment, the suicide track was the most accredited by the investigators. A dear friend of the victim reported that the day before was the 6th birthday of Kasia's son from a previous relationship, but the model was unreachable all day, which prompted the family to notify the police.

Boateng was reached by the sad news while he was in Qatar, where with Bayern Munich he was participating in the Club World Cup. The player, shaken, immediately returned to Germany.

Subsequent developments

After a long and thorough investigation, in November 2022 the former Bayern Munich player was ordered to pay the woman a fine of 1.2 million euros, to be paid daily (10,000 euros per day for 120 days). The charge was that of insults and violence against the ex-girlfriend, from which the footballer has always declared himself innocent.

In September 2023 a new twist: German justice annulled the conviction of defender Jérôme Boateng for violence against his ex-partner, and ordered a new proceeding for the same facts. Procedural flaws were invoked and a new trial will take place on an unknown date.